Daniel 13:46–54

⁴⁶He cried with a loud voice, “I am clear from the blood of this woman!”↗

⁴⁷Then all the people turned them toward him, and said, “What do these words that you have spoken mean?”↗

⁴⁸So he, standing in the midst of them, said, “Are you all such fools, you sons of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth you have condemned a daughter of Israel?↗

⁴⁹Return again to the place of judgment; for these have testified falsely against her.”↗

⁵⁰Therefore all the people turned again in haste, and the elders said to him, “Come, sit down among us, and show it to us, seeing God has given you the honor of an elder.”↗

⁵¹Then Daniel said to them, “Put them far apart from each another, and I will examine them.”↗

⁵²So when they were put apart one from another, he called one of them, and said to him, “O you who have become old in wickedness, now your sins have returned which you have committed before,↗

⁵³in pronouncing unjust judgment, condemning the innocent, and letting the guilty go free; although the Lord says, ‘You shall not kill the innocent and righteous.’↗

⁵⁴Now then, if you saw her, tell me, under which tree did you see them companying together?” He answered, “Under a mastick tree.”↗